antiphrase
metaphor
equivocal
opposite
antonym
adverb
opposite word
vocable
transferred sense
catachresis
sense
connotation
loanshift
adnominal
ancestor
signification
notional opposite
plesionym
polysemant
polysemantic word
polysemous word
figure of speech
etymon
term
locution
define
near-synonym
phrasal
root
false friend
nominalization
logomachize
synonym
metalinguistic
pseudo-loan
grandiloquism
literally
cliché
bless you
dictionary definition
loosely
wrench
protologism
parasynonym
counterdefinition
attributive
twist
misdefine
agnonym
skunked term
definiendum
gainword
abbreviature
pronoun
Humpty Dumpty word
eggcorn
plerematic
semantics
homograph
redefine
adequation
antonymous
determinatum
derivative
homonym
hard word
proverbial
Britishism
semordnilap
definiens
object language
confusable
accidental gap
adjective
hypercorrect
cum
poecilonym
prenominal
abbreviation
pseudo-anglicism
import
lexical definition
autoantonym
verbalism
subsense
dysphemism
shifter
reborrowing
significance
implication
phonemic
nonterm
capitonym
like it's going out of fashion

English words for 'A word or phrase used in a sense that is different to its literal or usual meaning.'

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